Re: [lias] Re: [SLUG] Webmail - advice sought

[DaZZa <dazza@nospam.zip.com.au>]

On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Anand Kumria wrote:

> > So why not just run a local mail server, and only give your seniors
> > accounts on it? Completely block web traffic from all except selected
> > machines {if required}, and just let sendmail spool to the local linux
> > box?
> 
> Because that requires a Unix account? Imagine 900 accounts with 10%
> disappearing every year. 

He said "only seniors". Unless this is one _fnarking_ big school, I
seriously doubt the senior year {or two} is 900.

Besides, your argument is null - webmail would require administration
anyway.

> > I suspect this could be overkill - if they're using the webmail, then
> > obviously they have access to machines - it's not hard to give them shell
> > accounts on the Unix box - hell, even POP3 accounts - and let them just do
> > mail that way - it'd save you ever accessing the web sites again, you
> > could procmail them to restrict mail size to something reasonable,
> > stopping large file attachments.
> 
> If you are already handling the 10% disappearance problems then POP/IMAP
> might be a good way to go. They can access it home and school using whatever
> they like.

I believe the idea was to keep them from accessing the net too much and
fklooding the 56k dialup. Letting them access the box from home would
defeat the purpose.

DaZZa

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